Teaching, Coaching, Mentoring · 5 April 2025
I put out a post a little while ago asking what people might like to see me write about on my blog. I actually got a reply!
I subscribe to a service that gives me social media posts each day of the month. I post something from them pretty much every day on Twitter/X. (I know. I should get over my notion that X will ever go back to Twitter, but I have a difficult time calling it X. I suppose that is another story. I wonder if I wrote it already. Hmm.) At any rate. I have been posting these social media words and pictures nearly every day for a few months now. They are not always posts promoting my books. (I have only set up a campaign for one book so far.) In fact, the schedule only calls for promoting my books one day out of six. Or something like that. Which means that I pretty much promote my book on Saturdays since I only post six days a week. I suppose I ought to change that. After all, there is some science to the calendar. At least that is what they said.
At any rate.
One of said posts was a question asking what I ought to write. It was a great post. But I figured that nobody would reply. But… Lo and behold, I got a reply. One of my cousins said that he would like to read stories about my teaching/mentoring. I was flabbergasted. Somebody actually responded to my post. I have had it happen before, but not very often. In fact, my cousin might be the only one to ever do so. Okay. Maybe not the only one, but certainly only one of two or three people.
Well, I certainly would like to oblige my cousin. After all, he reads my stuff. What is better than that? Besides being my cousin, of course.
Well, I have thought about it and I will certainly come up with some good stories. Not made up, of course. Just good stories about teaching and coaching. I am not sure that I have been much of a mentor, but perhaps I can come up with something close. After all, I do not really do that much teaching either. I try to come beside a student and help him or her along the way. Sometimes I need to prod a person, but usually not too hard. Just enough to get them going.
And there is my first story. No. Not this one. I just got an idea for a first story. Not the first story of teaching, coaching, and mentoring. I have done a few of those over the years. But the first one since one of my dear readers (Did I mention that he is my cousin?) asked for one.
If you ever wonder where bloggers get their ideas, do not ask me. I just come up with stuff. Although it is nice when some of that stuff is asked for. I hope that I can come up with a story now and then about teaching, coaching, and mentoring. I hope I can satisfy at least one of my reader’s curiosity.
(Thanks for replying, Dale.)
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